Epidemiology of Human Congenital Malformations

Authored by Bengt Källén, professor emeritus in embryology at Lund University in Sweden. ​​The subject of this book is to describe the occurrence of congenital malformations among children born and what risk factors exist. Population data are presented for a number of malformations, ascertained with the use of data from the Swedish national health registers for the period 1998-2010 corresponding to some 1.3 million births, together with prospectively collected information on a group of exposures